This Special Puzzle Tells Your Chess Talent Level

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@carlosedwardos]

❤Dear Comrade Smirnov, apparently we are going to have to demote you back down to IM, because the latest development version of Stockfish, version 16.1 dev-20240820-9fb58328, released last week, reports at depth of 50, that the best move for black is indeed Rxc4, that YOU ruled out! 🤭 - So let's give you a new ELO of 2200 ❤

[@justkeating8399]

I believe that I could find a7 in a puzzle; but in a real game scenario I am not so sure. With puzzles, it’s telling you that a great/brilliant move is on the board right now. In an actual game with the clock ticking away it’s much more difficult to find those moves AND to play it at the exact right time. Playing it at the wrong time or in the wrong order blunders the whole game away.

[@dc49154]

Exactly my response except I did find rook a7

[@SirajKhan-cr5zu]

That's exactly what happens with us.

[@xagameplay]

Absolutely,but I thinks that there is always a great move on the board after 13 move.

[@michaelkatz2004]

Your response ruined the puzzle. Thanks

[@comicus6769]

That is my biggest complaint about puzzle books. They would be much better if they were "salted". In other words with combos/sacs etc that don't work sprinkled in to help enforce more calculation discipline.

[@khadiplays1410]

Pls dont ever end this series plssssssss❤❤❤❤

[@TheSeraphim75]

Dammit, I'm a 1600 but this opened my eyes big time... How do people see all of that in a position. It's just so sexy to have that kind of vision.

[@xornxenophon3652]

I am at 1575 and I agree. But I guess, part of it is training and experience and not playing blitz...

[@rarohitt]

I' m 800 elo but still I find that move 😂 I think this puzzle doubled my elo

[@QQnowQQlater]

Watching chess they sit there playing out multiple variations of the game in their head. Just break the board down and work your way from most valuable to least valuable, see what it's attacking, what's attacking it, is it pinned, will it be a discovered check, etc etc. These games aren't blitz or bullet where the last 10 seconds devolves into rapid fire blunders. So, watching grandmasters play the answer is just simply: taking your time to think. Granted the more experienced you are, the faster you will... although that's misleading because a lot of grandmasters can sit there running through these checks for 10 minutes, depending. So it's all variable.

[@hartfordjenningsjr6687]

I’ve watched you before, but man these check your ratings are some Superior conversations: thanks for throwing Light… Happy New year. With these you make a connection with people way under you rating. Thanks Man.

[@williamhuynh869]

Ok I am 1500 online and here's what I got: White is up a piece for a pawn at the moment, therefore any mass exchanges should benefit white. However, the white queen is being attacked by the rook and the black knight could unleash a devastating discovered check. A lackadaisical move like h3 would lose the queen to something like Ne5+. Therefore, to keep our material advantage, we must either save the queen or counterattack. For the first one, Qf1 is the only safe square as Nd2+ can be met with Qg2 and white is probably fine, if a bit passive. Not particularly impressive but hey if we can't get a counterattack going, let's play Qf1. For option 2, we need either checks or attacks on the enemy queen, because everything else will lead to material loss after the black knight unleashes a discovered check. Qxc8, Qxe6, etc. are rather unimpressive and no follow up is there. But how about Ra7, attacking the queen (ensuring any knight discovered check lets us capture their queen)? -Qxa7 loses immediately to Qxc8 and backrank checkmate. -Rxc4 Rxb7 will always lead to a mass exchange of the major pieces. For example, Rc6 Rxb6 Rxb6 Nc4 seems promising for white with a fork on the pawn, and Rxb7 Nxc4 seems good for white, even if d5 comes with tempo black will find it hard to save their knight in the long term because of Kg2. -Other than these moves, Qb8 and Qc6 also keep black in the game as everything else loses a rook or backrank checkmate. -Qc6 Qxc6 Rbxc6 (Rcxc6 allows backrank) Rd7 d5 Kg2 seems pretty good for white, even if the bishop taking can ruin our pawn structure. Black has basically no attack and our dark squared bishop becomes uncontested. At the very least, white has a slight material advantages and pretty active pieces. -Qb8 is the toughest to crack, but suddenly there is no discovered check threat. I considered Qxe6 fxe6 (not taking the queen is absurd) Rxg7+ Kf8 (Kh8 leads to checkmate with Rxg5) Nxe6+ Ke8 and there is surprisingly nothing white can do. So then I looked at Qxc8 Qxc8 Rda1 Rb8 and saw nothing. Then I thought what if we took a different starting point: Rda1 Rxc4 Nxc4 (which attacks the rook) and I think a backrank queen to king pin is unstoppable, winning our material back. Let's see how my calculation holds up

[@Nova04550]

Good job

[@juicedrop]

After Qf1, Ne1 or Na4 discovered check means the Q can't block, and it gets more complicated. You'd have to block the check on d5 with a Knight

[@williamhuynh869]

​@@juicedropI saw Ne1 and Na4 but I didnt realize Kg1 leads to perpetual check

[@juicedrop]

@@williamhuynh869 oh wow, nor did I!

[@Nova04550]

Honestly queen f1 is the only move I see that gets the white queen out of threat of black rook and also the discovered check involving black knight and queen. I don't see any equal or stronger threats white can make. (Posting before watching the rest of video.)

[@julianwessel1051]

What happens after Nh4+ ?

[@ricacollo3586]

Thank you for all your work Igor. 👍

[@rich842]

Video starts at 0:01

[@Zyrexia]

Actually starts at 0:00

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Video ends at 15:58

[@maximepoca9396]

That was a crazy one ! I always love these videos so much ! Keep it up ! I've found the 2000 response quite fast, which is my elo (always so accurate I'm amazed). I knew there has to be something better than Qd4 but could not find either of the moves sadly. Rxf7 and Rda1 are crazy moves to consider I feel like, I did not think any of them could be winning for white.

[@jeanLetourneau1]

Fantastic! I need more a this kind of puzzle to practice myself to have the correct thinking process.

[@AchievesTV]

Guilty of the 1600 thought process. Found Ra7 and the correct trade down sequence but didn’t consider Qb8 as the best response. Also feel like if I’d seen Qb8 I may have discarded Ra7 as I’d be uncertain about there being a good follow up and went with Qf1. 1350-1400 rapid, and since I only play 10 minute I would be feeling the pressure to move to not spend too much time in a middle game scenario.

[@swiftsword6489]

Same, I saw Ra7 and calculated the most aggressive/forcing options for black (Ne5+, Qxa7, and Rxc4), but the simple Qb8 just didn't even touch my mind. I am actually 1600 though, so I guess I can say it's very accurate. I also really agree with the rapid thing you mentioned, I only found Ra7 because I had unlimited time AND knew it was a puzzle. In a real game, I might've resigned or something lol because obviously I can't spend 15 minutes analyzing all the possibilities, and would've felt it's more important to just not lose on time. Maybe in classical I would've found it, though I've never played a proper, OTB classical game. Really cool stuff though.

[@AchievesTV]

@@swiftsword6489 think it’s definitely findable! It’s having the discipline to consider that “ok, what if they DONT just trade down” as the next step. The grind continues 👍 Also helps to realize that the follow up of Ra1 is a very natural follow up, I believe in us!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@JoeBob79569]

I found Ra7 fairly quickly and figured it was the best move, with plans to bring the other rook to a1, but I didn't calculate it out fully. I also considered Rf7 but then I dismissed it because I forgot that my knight was covering the e6 square for a queen invasion, which I think I disregarded because of the pawn on f7, and then I was thinking that the king would be protecting the e7 square anyway, Doh! I think my visualisation skills just need to be a little bit better, because even though I can imagine moves like Rf7 I can't quite see all of the consequences of it in my head. And after thinking a few moves ahead things start to get a bit blurry and I forget that some pieces have moved position or been removed from the board. Especially when I'm looking at those pieces on the board in their original positions..

[@OperationSwift-lj1xn]

i love these videos🥰🥰 not only i can learn and discover my weaknesses (one of them for me is when im not extending my thinking about future moves) but makes chess so fun to learn

[@hobbesgroovy]

Very good video. Really liked this because for the first time I have an idea what my ELO rating would be approximately (1600 according to this video, with a huge margin of error, I presume). Really, thank you.

[@xatnu]

First puzzle: only mpve I see is Qf1 since knight on f3 is threatening a revealed check which could win the queen. After that, if black tries Nd2 then white can offer a queen trade and the material advantage will hopefully lead to better control

[@juicedrop]

Another amazing exercise. Again I find that I can't fully commit to finding the best moves for the other player, so essentially I am only looking half a move ahead (1600). Also, I thought the Qf1 move looked a bit sketchy after Ne1+ or Nh4+. Q can't block the check so Nd5 is forced. Situation gets very comlicated! And I thought it also deserved a bit of analysis

[@colagraf4247]

Im 1800 FIDE rn but I was able to see up to the 2300 Level, but would have played the 1800 solution, because even though I had a rough idea of all the lines (2600) I was not always sure wether it was winning (especially the point about having a strong attack 11:05) because I didn't see clearly winning lines

[@Hannahwawa]

I'm below 500, and it was accurate. This gave me the ideas of where I lack and why I couldn't improve. It really pointed out my weaknesses and now I have an idea how to improve. Thank you! This was very helpful

[@glennsampson5945]

Nice video and position. I saw that the Queen was under attack and I saw the discovery. I saw that white could defend by playing Qf1 and responding to Nd2 with Qg2. I didn't see a counterattack in the second or two I spent on looking for an obvious attacking reply. So it seems I need to spend more effort on looking for counterattacking replies. Thanks for the tip.

[@ArutaretiI]

Ok, I did find the best move rather quickly but I wasn't sure it was the right one because what I missed was that white is up a minor piece. I blame that on the fact that I'm not used to evaluate material difference because when I play on the internet, I have that calculated automatically and displayed in the interface. I'm gonna turn if off now. I'm about 1600 in classical chess on lichess so it about checks out.

[@MikeStannard]

Brilliant video!! So instructional. I was only 1500 which is about right. I play too defensive and I know it. Thanks Igor.

[@Melds]

Queen is at risk with rook and king will be checked if the knight moves and could win queen even without the rook. Only a few safe places for it to go, only e2, or f1. Black at risk of back rank mate but well protected by rook and queen or possibly if queen could be moved to g7. I don't see a good trade off hand so I'll move Q to E2 for now and look toward h7.

[@Melds]

Oops, E2 isn't safe either. Saw the knight trap it one way, not the other. :(

[@kamalofdeka]

I am 1600+ fide and I found almost all the ideas correctly except some finness in calculations. I found Ra7 ( ofcourse in a real game I doubt I would have opted for something like Qf1) instantaneously, but took a bit time to cheak its correctness. Then I found Rxf7 is correct and concluded I would get decisive attack after Qxe6 if KxR appears. In the event of RxQ , I thought I could get my material back by some disco. But I didn't calculate/ was unable to calculate with a very clear ending.

[@PMA65537]

I suggest N e4 to d5 mainly to counter discovered check from the queen. Use this N not the other to preserve c2.

[@xagameplay]

Even the main players of this puzzle can't find all these moves in one go. it happens to me when I tried to do something deadliest.

[@kwhd559]

1.Ra7 followed by 2.Qxe6 deserved an honorable mention 😁

[@DaweiZhou-v8t]

Ra7,Qb8.attack queen and rook.if Qd3 looking for mate in 1,Bf6.attack the queen and black queen still attack rook.

[@m.rubland6737]

This made my day! I´m only 600 and I found Ra7! My approach was: perhaps black will just take the rook and blunder a backrank checkmate. Otherwise he would take my Queen and I will take his Queen. And if he goes Qb8 it was at least a try.

[@gakshat468]

I have habit of going for devastating attacks on puzzle. Ra7 was one of the first moves I thought about. But Becoz it was written 500 elo , I got misleaded that the puzzle is of that rating And I just moved forward with the video. Then I got to know that the subsection is based on thought levels rather than puzzles.

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Either knight to d5 to prevent revealed check and subsequent loss of queen.

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Well I missed the obvious. I already knew my rating was low.

[@KenFullman]

I saw my queen is currently under attack. The only available escape squares not currently covered by a black piece are d3, e2, f1. All three of those squares can be attacked by the night (on f3) on it's next move. So any of those would lead to discovered check with my queen under attack. Looking for an option to counter attack I saw Ra7 The potential from that would give me either a backrank checkmate (if black takes my rook) or the opportunity to take back the queen (if black takes mine). I never considered blacks Qb8 I did, however see an alternative move for black that you never mentioned which is Ne5+ Anyhow. I thought this would have been blacks best defence and would leave us about equal (IMHO)

[@joelithic]

I picked F1. My current ELO is 640 Rapid with 1700 puzzle rating.

[@MahabubJamal-v5h]

I want more videos like this 😊

[@mikkohassien2117]

FIDE somewhere 2100 online 1300. I did saw till 2600 as I have played. that same game OBD and i have used rook sac method , passive defensive method, rook for knoght method. all have different approach for the end. If you want to play longer game use Qf1 it is. funny for end as pawn storm will win the game for white( simple approach for 1800 - 2000 player against 1500 - 1800 player) but if you like to take an aggressive way definetly THE ROOOOOOOK f7!

[@張謙-n3l]

My result in this test is 1600, but I often get my ass kicked by 1000 rated players

[@medude420024]

We play too fast is why. I got 1600 but also noticed the second rook sac. Just go too fast though and don't actually put enough thought into moves. I'm only like 1000-1200

[@AmirulAsyraf-mq7bx]

Interesting. I am between 500-1000. I see the threat, see the safe spot, see the pieces but I only see Queen protected the knight for black. But just like any beginners, the first thing I see after the threat is knight sacrifice for a e6 fork but hanging the queen.

[@gideonlouw7308]

Thank you! This is great video! and nice example of chess puzzle with different ratings.. Just one quick comment.. if a player gets Ra7 like in your video you give the person 1600 rating.. but then if he also finds R*f7 he gets 2600.. lol.. to get to the f7 square you have to first go to a7.. so from that point of view the move does not make any sense.. you can not give the same move 1600 and then 2600.. you can only change a rating if the move is a different square.. Not sure where you read about this puzzle but the author got this mixed up. lol

[@secretasianman2531]

the queen is threatened by the rook, but there's no safe place to move where the queen won't be attacked by the knight when the knight moves resulting in a discovered check by the black queen. so you need to move the queen to a place where the queen can then *block* the discovered check and move out of the knight's attack. that square would be f1. so, q-f1 would be my choice.

[@lonestarst8]

I envisioned up to 1800-ish but would have played 1500 for the sake of keeping the queen or exchanging on g2. Lichess rating is around 1700 and my puzzles around 2080. My play is completely sporadic and I have runs where I do really good, for me, and really bad.

[@thijsminnee7549]

I'm confused. I didn't notice the discovered check but somehow still came to the conclusion that the only move that made sense (because its agressive) was rook a7.

[@gibson8109]

Im 1600ish and find the 1600 solution, but didnt calculated the 1800 solution, so its pretty accurate, at least now i know how to progress ty❤

[@mmartel]

I found Ra7 although I thought it was winning on the spot. After Qb8 I did after a brief think also find Rxf7. I probably would have found both moves in a classical game, perhaps a longer rapid game but definitely not a blitz game. My Lichess rapid ELO is around 1900.

[@xipleadthe5th]

Thank you for your videos! I have went from 500 to 1100 just by watching your videos

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Awesome to hear that from you 💛

[@urihanoch358]

solid 1800 according to you. would've played qf1 as I didn't see the continuation after qb8 but as I almost never play online (or offline) chess, and only focus on puzzles, bots and theory, I don't know what my elo is. I doubt it's higher than 1500

[@risktaker53]

Could have/would have back in the day in a classical game, but I just started playing again after a nearly 50 year hiatus from chess (I was around 1800 back in the day), and everyone is playing rapid/blitz (and on the computer), and my brain isn't as fast as it was...at least not yet, or so far. I recently retired to Florida and found a good local chess club here...but my play there has been atrocious these first couple of months. Any hope, or suggestions, for a 71 year old who wants to renew his love of the game, lol?!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

It’s awesome that you’re getting back into chess! I know it can be tough after a long break, especially with the faster-paced games. I suggest starting with the "Level Up Your Chess" course. It’s perfect for sharpening your skills and getting back in form. Check it out here: online.chess-teacher.com/course/level-up-your-chess/ Don’t worry about the slow start-keep practicing, and you’ll see improvement. Feel free to reach out if you need anything!

[@ssfgsfgs2]

I sat there at ”1600elo level” because i listened. Paused the video and probebly sat there for 8-12 minutes straight just going through the options.

[@l0v0l78]

I found the brilliant move because I thought there were no safe squares for White Queen

[@Kazekage121]

Wow I can't believe that I saw all the variations for 2300! I Completely saw Ra7 Qb8, Rf7...

[@jgotthelf44]

I’m mid 500s at the moment (had a tough weekend), I saw the threats, but missed the knight advantage, so I guess I score closer to 800.

[@grahamf695]

I found Ra7, Qb8. I looked at Rxf7 and Qxe6, but got a bit muddled. I was expecting Qxe6, fxe6 then Rxg7, Kf8 and Ne6, but the back rank tricks don’t work because the rook is still on c8.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@nikbelikov]

I saw the 1600 move but calculated it wrong and thought it was bad 😅. Can’t understand how come I have 1500 then but keep losing games to 1100 players? And in blitz (3min) it’s even worse! I can’t go up to 900 even.

[@JerrySuneagle]

!'m 1400 and went for Qg1. Did not see the Rook counterattack nor bother to see I was up a piece probably because I play too many puzzles and piece numbers mean nothing with them.

[@Stackoffish]

I wish this corresponded to my IRL elo. I am like 1600 FIDE and got... 2600... somehow. I sat there for a solid 5-10 minutes just calculating Rxf7 and concluded I was probably winning after Ra7 Qb8 Rxf7. I considered Qxe6 for a brief moment but quickly discarded it due to fxe6 Rxg7+ Kh8! Rb7+ Rc3 ( Rxg5 Rc3 ) or e5 and Rxf7 just seemed like a better version of Qxe6. I failed to calculate Rxf7 Ne5 Rxg7+ because, well I am not a GM and Ne5 Rxg7 are ridiculous moves to spot like 5 moves in advance.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@BK-nd7iz]

is there any rating difference for the rook sacrifice vs doubling the rooks or is it simply a matter of preference since both are winning?

[@kirito3082]

I'm 1700 and got the 1600 result, didn't spend too much time on it because it's past midnight and I'm going to sleep but I don't think I would see much further than that

[@SweetDream2346]

I calculated Ra7 and found out Qb8 is the only move. Then I calculated Qxe6 fxe6 Rxg7+, If Kf8 Nxe6+ Ke8 then I stopped because it's too complicated. And if Rxg7+ Kh8 I know there is a discover check but I am not able to calculate anymore. Also I thought my answer was wrong because sacrificing a queen is just too much material overall my score is around 1800 to 2000.

[@chilliram]

This is great. It put me exactly at my current best ELO of 1500.

[@garahan4298]

Yep me too.

[@Liberaven]

I’m at 400 rating and I thought Ra7 fairly quickly. Your description of what happens at each rating is way off, apart from the blunders part. They do happen often, but the supposedly “high level play” happens all the time too

[@medam9042]

I calculated till Rda1, so rated 2300, but that’s after spending a lot of time calculating variations. Can you please add how much time we are allowed to spend calculating ? btw my elo is around 1600, tho I don’t play a lot of chess.

[@tecnolinux1469]

I calculate both Ra7 and Qf1 🎉🎉🎉

[@vinzanity68]

Cool. Spot on.

[@Varstahl]

Me, a 480: well, the queen is doomed, going back doesn't do much good, the black queen is on a diagonal attack with a discovered check as soon as the horse moves, so Qxc8+, Qxc8 because stalling with black bishop into a checkmate is silly and with this I take their Queen off the diagonal, Nh5 to help Bg7 to freeze the King there, and depending on the pawn/bishops moves Ng4 Nf6 routing. Yeah, I'm gonna be low ELO for a while :D

[@adityaarora3475]

You are probably right for the higher levels, but I think you are really underestimating the levels of sub 1500 players, which is something normal that grandmasters do. Like in most of your videos, you say that the player is 500 if they hung a piece that was under attack(without any tactics involved), but the thing is that even though 500's blunder, they don't blunder every move, rather they blunder every ~7-8 moves, and by blunder I mean hang a piece directly, let the opponent blunder their piece and not capture, not play M1 when they have it, and let the opponent play M1 from a winning position. So what you say is 500 is really what I would consider to be 250-300, where they blunder at least every other move. 500's "blunders" are generally not really blunders(by my definition here and what you said to be 500 elo), in that usually they miss basic tactics(forks, skewers, x-rays, discovered attacks etc), they miss sacrifices, and they often move a piece that is guarding another piece that would then be under attack. So its something that at least makes sense rather than hanging a queen when its very clearly under attack from a rook. I'm 550 and according to this I'm 1200 level because I played Qd3 which didn't hang the queen immediately at least, but put the queen in a position where it could be discovered checked. I doubt a 1200 would play something like that, I think what you described as 1500 is what a real 1200 would play, 1000 is what a real 500 would play, 500 is what a 300 would play etc. I'd also say that there is a difference between someone who played moves like Qd4, Qe4, and people who played Qd3 and Qe2, because while both hang the queen the former just hangs it in one move, wheras seeing the latter takes more intuition of seeing that there are discovered checks available(and this makes a 500-1000 opponent much less likely to capatailize on it). I'd say the former is what a real 500 is like and the latter might be like 700(I think I played like a 700 because I'm a little bad with shorter time increments and play better OTB even though I'm 550). So yeah just keep this in mind in the future. But good position and could explanation of the calculations.

[@aphasicmale]

i was looking to do the wayward queen attack in this position. . my EL0 rating 25 , btw

[@Axiomatic75]

I found ra7 and some of the continuations after that but not all. I'm 1100 blitz and 1700 daily games. I'm an OK player if I have enough time to think but do poorly in shorter time formats. I'm completely useless in bullet, I lost the few games I played on time.

[@timm439]

I’m 1100 and found the 1600 level but also stopped a bit early

[@sourasishdutta4126]

Ok now here is a problem I didn't found the rook to a7 but after that I found that f7 is also a move now I know I am 1000 elo probably 1300 sometimes but how do I evaluate this ?

[@mohammadsaeed7749]

What if blundered the queen on first move but found the discovered attack 😅

[@pds4]

Please do speedrun

[@johnwinebrenner1231]

What is the ELO rating for Grandmaster Blunder? I am sure that my rating.

[@jimmccann3856]

So... I found 1 Ra7! not so much from any rabid counter attacking mentality, but from knowing that when facing a dangerous battery, attacking the Base of the Battery is often useful. And I did find 1.. Qb8, and then giving back some Material with 2 Qe4, leaving 2Ns v R. (I did consider 2 QxR+ QxQ 3 Ra1, the same back rank idea, which I then saw did not work due to Rb8, missing the Famous "Reverse the Move Order", with Ra1 first. Not even in my dreams would I have considered 2 Rxf!.) I am 2039 LiChess Classical, which is > 95.1% of LiChess Classical players, but 605 million earthlings play chess regularly, and their general standard is poor, verging on piss-poor, not LiChess Classical standard at all, so your 95% planetary judgement for 2000 ELO seems light...

[@EvaanIsmaelJameelAhmed]

Yeah, i found Qf1, found the fianchetto.

[@ashutosh.mishra5000]

2300, I cannot believe this much i cab calculate... 🧐😮😇

[@swiftsword6489]

that's incredible!

[@socasack]

300 baby! I see all - hear all and know all! That's right - THREE HUNDRED!

[@RevRideJDM]

Hey GM Igor i managed to find all those lines and the rating range i got was 2600 but the problem is i am still 1528 in standard rating and sometimes with against 1800 to 1900 players but still looses to some 1400 fide rated players in OTB games though i manage to win against high elo fide rated player sin OTB games. Moreover i have even won agaisnt soem titled players with real fide ratings of 2200+ and 2300+ and 2400+ playign them in lichess form in their streams. But the problem is my standard fide rating is still low. Actually idk what is wrong with me. I could spot the moves and calculate correclty still i feel like im lacking something could u pls tell me what I am lacking and pls help me with it.?

[@QQnowQQlater]

I kept trying to complete the puzzle, but so far it just keeps asking me "Are you from India?" and "Do you own more than two sticks to entertain yourself?" So I guess not.

[@bmarrimarri7055]

2000here That was one crazy one My current elo ise1884(Fide) Absolutely loved it Tq

[@atHomeNYC]

Lol...1800 here with 1800 result from this puzzle. I don't know what is happening? I struggled to cross the 1600 initially but I am crushing it against the 1800. I am way too aggressive and confusing for them apparently.

[@abj136]

I saw Ra7 Qb8 but then I lept for Qxe6!?!?!?! fe6 Rg7 Kf8 Ne6+ and it looked good. In a game I would double check, and ultimately delay the deepest calculation until after black’s first response. Canadian, 2000ish.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@tonycolussi9268]

I got somewhere between 1800 and 2100, but I'm stuck at 550 ELO in reality...

[@austinmaiden4663]

So I'm 1330 online with 2800+ in puzzles. I found Ra7 and Rda1, but probably wouldn't have found them in a game

[@BillPitcher]

2300, online I was 1800 many years ago.

[@geoffreycintron4471]

After rook takes on g7 isn't rook to g6 mate?

[@simoncharles6664]

Wow i lost like 500 elo on this one, i must take a rest

[@ChillMusic15-z5m]

If you still make a comeback with 1 pawn and king 👑💀 then you're a genius finishing off entire army of black .....

[@lolipopcr7058]

Queen e2 I would have done

[@yourfriend5144]

Nice I got 500 for blundering the queen and 2000+ for attacking black queen with the rook then sacing it🤷🏻

[@walterbrownstone8017]

I don't like chess tests. That's not fun. I like baby steps. For example it seems to me when I grind and analyze 30 blitz games a day for a month then take a week break, when I come back I seem to see more tactics without even trying to find them. I just happy my brain knows what it's doing and I don't need to get involved in how my brain is finding the tactics. Baby steps add up.

[@peterwolf4230]

Got 1500, and my current rating is 1370. So, pretty accurate.

[@SonuMishra-b3o]

Same

[@bodragon4582]

I love your videos, but literally nothing ive ever learned from you works in real life.

[@aashirimran466]

I got rated around 1500 i am 1300 right now ... I think I can get 200 more rating points. Its been 6 months since I started playing competitively online,,

[@juanf.rubino3455]

I could see rook a7 a 1600 Elo and I’m way below that ranking for now… 😢

[@TanahTanah-j3b]

2300-2600, i find rook capture f7, and calculate if black capture queen, then rook takes g7, but i missed rook to a1,😁

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thank you for watching!

[@Jamerz1]

Yay I'm 1600ish. Very good puzzle.

[@TimothyZhou0]

Got 2600 on test, only 2000 IRL haha

[@ChillMusic15-z5m]

Now i can say that my elo rating is 2300 💀

[@tushartyagi6398]

I could not find 1600 level to 2000 level but I found 2300 level . So am I advance player or not

[@QQnowQQlater]

1600... but definitely not 1600 hundred... fun puzzle and presentation/entertaining, but I have the consistency of jelly.

[@cmehustle]

Only thing I could find is Rook A7. Unless it’s something else I don’t see, that’s whites best play.